fbar: An Extensible Approach to Flux Balance Analysis

A simple package for Flux Balance Analysis and related
metabolic modeling techniques. Functions are provided for: parsing
models in tabular format, converting parsed metabolic models to input
formats for common linear programming solvers, and
evaluating and applying gene-protein-reaction mappings. In addition, there
are wrappers to parse a model, select a solver, find the metabolic fluxes,
and return the results applied to the original model. Compared to other
packages in this field, this package puts a much heavier focus on
providing reusable components that can be used in the design of new
implementation of new techniques, in particular those that involve large
parameter sweeps.